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Kourosh Bassiti, BScTech; MAIChE, FRSA, graduated in Chemical Engineering and Fuel Technology from Sheffield University. He has over 25 years of experience in the oil and petrochemical industry in the USA, Middle East and Europe. He began his career in the upstream oil industry, for a subsidiary of the National Iranian Oil Company, and Atlantic Richfield. Subsequently he worked for Union Carbide Corporation in the United States as well as in Athens, covering Middle East and Africa. After returning to the United Kingdom, he worked for Robert Jenkins, where his business development skills were used to supply packaged process equipment to the world-wide oil and gas industry. He later was appointed as the Director of CALtec, the subsidiary of the British Hydromechanics Research Group, where he gained a reputation in promoting and developing technologies for the petroleum industry.

In the public sector, Kourosh Bassiti was responsible for the economic development of the energy industries in Scotland. His responsibilities included the oil and gas as well as the power generation sector. In that position he championed the business needs of the service and supply companies, and in particular drew attention to the need for supporting the development of the emerging technologies through joint industry programmes. He was the first Director of the Aberdeen Offshore Technology Park, where over 30 international innovative companies in the oil and gas industry are based.

In addition to his current consultancy services, Kourosh Bassiti lectures to MSc students, at Aberdeen University in Scotland, on Business Strategy and Marketing.